Lund's New Meta-View Provides Versatile ''Three-Click'' Performance Management; New Multi-Platform Performance Reporting System Allows Users to Manage Environments More Efficiently.

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ALBANY, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2002

Lund Performance Solutions announces Meta-View Performance Manager to the mid-range server market.

Meta-View Performance Manager is a new, comprehensive multi-platform performance reporting system from Lund Performance Solutions. It provides data instantaneously over the web, and presents it in both graphical and tabular form. It is easily and completely customizable. Meta-View provides, as Lund likes to say, "What you need to know, when you need to know it."

Meta-View is the successor to Lund's SOS product. It retains the powerful collectors and host-based capabilities of SOS and adds these powerful new elements: a web server to make data instantaneously available over the web, and two new java-based clients. Further, Lund's popular graphical reporting tool, Performance Gallery Gold, is now part of Meta-View and has been enhanced to provide real-time multi-host reporting.

Meta-View supports all of the same host platforms as SOS: HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and MPE. It also adds two new ones: Windows NT and Windows XP.

The new Web View client is based on Java technology, and thus can run on any machine that can run Java applications. It is a flexible lightweight client, particularly appropriate for monitoring status and providing information for performance troubleshooting. It comes pre-configured with graphical pages, making it easy to use right out of the box. The "First Look" page presents multiple hosts on an alert chart and on an alert log chart. If either of these charts show danger conditions on a host one can "drill down" with a single click to a second look page, which provides an overview of the host of interest. Similarly one can drill down from this page to any of a number of third look pages, to get more detailed information about a particular resource on the host of interest.

Lund Vice President Andy Herbert commented on Web View and its powerful drill down capability. "With our new Meta-View Performance Manager, IT professionals will be able to both quickly analyze the big picture view and drill down to the performance bottleneck on a single system. Around here we say, `three clicks to the smoking gun.' With this product you can literally go from a view of dozens of systems to the bottleneck on a particular server with just three clicks of the mouse. We realized a long time ago that our customers have to find and fix their system issues quickly without a lot of hassle. Meta-View will insure that whether you are running one large e3000 server or dozens of hosts of various kinds, you will be able to manage your environment more efficiently with this cost effective solution."

The Win View client, formerly named Performance Gallery Gold, is a heavy-duty application perfect for handling long time periods for trend analysis. It provides a graphical interface that runs natively on Windows platforms. It has powerful automation and printing capabilities.

The new Mobile View client also uses Java and runs on Palm, Treo, iPAQ, Jornada and compatible PDA's. It obtains web data over mobile phone connections. Even though display size is limited on PDA's, Mobile View is able to provide powerful monitoring and drill-down capabilities similar to those of Web View.

The Host View client, formerly named SOS/ASCII, provides comprehensive troubleshooting information about a single host. It runs on a terminal or terminal emulator. The connection can be hard-wired, or via telnet.

Other features of SOS, such as SOSLOGX, a flexible terminal-based reporter of historical data, are retained in Meta-View.

About Lund Performance Solutions

Lund Performance Solutions is an innovative software and consulting firm founded in 1986 and headquartered in Albany, Oregon. Lund provides highly regarded system performance software, professional support services and training to the mid-range computer market worldwide. Lund delivers products to the HP-MPE, HP-UX, Linux, Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows environments, as well as comprehensive migration services for customers converting to new system platforms. Lund is a valued Channel Partner of HP and Sun Microsystems, and its clients include 3M, Boeing, Bose, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chicago Title and Lucent Technologies.